Real Time Digital Content Concealment

ABSTRACT

Methods and systems for performing real time digital content concealment are described herein. A computing device may, in response to detecting a user within view of an image capture device of a client device, perform a first type of text recognition on a first region of digital content and a second type of text recognition on a second region of the digital content, where the first type of text recognition is determined based on a first type of content items contained in the first region and the second type of text recognition is determined based on a second type of content items contained in the second region. Based at least in part on rules corresponding to the user, the computing device may determine content items within the digital content to be concealed, and may modify the digital content to conceal the content items.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

The present application claims priority to International Application No.PCT/CN18/119205, filed Dec. 4, 2018, and entitled “Real Time DigitalContent Concealment,” which is hereby incorporated by reference as toits entirety.

FIELD

Aspects described herein generally relate to computers and processingsystems for displaying digital content. In particular, one or moreaspects of the disclosure relate to identifying individuals observingdisplayed content and concealing digital content from display accordingto rules, policies, and databases based on viewership of the content.

BACKGROUND

Many organizations and individuals rely on content displays to conveyinformation that, in some circumstances, may be private or inappropriatefor particular viewers. Accordingly, individuals may use generic privacyscreens, or may even attempt to manually block the displays, so as limitdisplay of such information. In many instances, viewers may change aspeople enter and leave an area containing the display, resulting inoverexposure and/or over concealment of the information displayed.

SUMMARY

The following presents a simplified summary of various aspects describedherein. This summary is not an extensive overview, and is not intendedto identify required or critical elements or to delineate the scope ofthe claims. The following summary merely presents some concepts in asimplified form as an introductory prelude to the more detaileddescription provided below.

To overcome limitations in the prior art described above (e.g.,overexposure and/or over concealment of information in the use ofgeneric privacy screens), and to overcome other limitations that will beapparent upon reading and understanding the present specification,aspects described herein are directed towards systems and methods forperforming real time digital content concealment based on individuals.

In accordance with one or more embodiments of the disclosure, a systemcomprising at least one processor and a memory, and may, in response todetecting a user within view of an image capture device of a clientdevice perform a first type of text recognition on a first region ofdigital content displayed by the client device and a second type of textrecognition on a second region of the digital content displayed by theclient device, where the first type of text recognition is determinedbased on a first type of content items contained in the first region andthe second type of text recognition is determined based on a second typeof content items contained in the second region. Based at least in parton rules corresponding to the groups to the user, the system maydetermine content items within the digital content to be concealed. Thesystem may modify the digital content so as to conceal the content itemsfrom view of the user while the client device displays the digitalcontent. The system may display, via the client device, the modifieddigital content to the user, where the modified digital content does notcontain the determined content items.

In one or more embodiments, the system may establish a wireless dataconnection with the client device. While the wireless data connection isestablished, the system may receive an indication of a first change inthe groups to which present users belong, where the first type of textrecognition and the second type of text recognition are performed inresponse to receiving the indication of the first change in the groupsto which present users belong.

In one or more embodiments, the system may identify, based on the groupsto which present users belong, the one or more content items to beconcealed. In one or more embodiments, the system may identify the oneor more content items to be concealed by determining that the textrecognized in the digital content corresponds to words identified bypolicies corresponding to each group to which present users belong.

In one or more embodiments, the groups to which present users belong maybe defined based on user age or employment status of present users. Inone or more embodiments, the first region may contain plain text, thesecond region may contain text in an image, and a third region maycontain text in video.

In one or more embodiments, the system may monitor, at a predefinedinterval, the groups to which present users belong and the digitalcontent to determine the change. In some embodiments, the system maydetermine, in response to a second change in groups to which presentusers belong, that the modified digital content should be modified toallow display of the content items. The system may modify the modifieddigital content to allow display of the determined content items byreturning the modified digital content to a pre-modification state.

In one or more embodiments, the system may determine, in response to asecond change in the content, that the updated content contains one ormore additional words to be concealed. The system may modify the updatedcontent to cause the positions of the one or more additional words to beconcealed to correspond to the uniform color.

In one or more embodiments, the system may determine the change ingroups to which present users belong by performing facial recognition todetermine an identifier corresponding to each user in view of the imagecapture device of the client device and determining at least oneidentifier corresponding to a new group to which present users belong bycomparison of the determined identifiers to a stored database ofcorrelations between a list of identifiers and a list of groups to whichpresent users belong.

These and additional aspects will be appreciated with the benefit of thedisclosures discussed in further detail below.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

A more complete understanding of aspects described herein and theadvantages thereof may be acquired by referring to the followingdescription in consideration of the accompanying drawings, in which likereference numbers indicate like features, and wherein:

FIG. 1 depicts an illustrative computer system architecture that may beused in accordance with one or more illustrative aspects describedherein.

FIG. 2 depicts an illustrative remote-access system architecture thatmay be used in accordance with one or more illustrative aspectsdescribed herein.

FIG. 3 depicts an illustrative virtualized (hypervisor) systemarchitecture that may be used in accordance with one or moreillustrative aspects described herein.

FIG. 4 depicts an illustrative cloud-based system architecture that maybe used in accordance with one or more illustrative aspects describedherein.

FIG. 5 depicts an illustrative enterprise mobility management system.

FIG. 6 depicts another illustrative enterprise mobility managementsystem.

FIG. 7 depicts an illustrative computing environment for performing realtime digital content concealment in accordance with one or more exampleembodiments.

FIGS. 8A-8B depict an illustrative event sequence for performing realtime digital content concealment in accordance with one or more exampleembodiments.

FIG. 9 depicts an illustrative method for performing real time digitalcontent concealment in response to a change in user groups in accordancewith one or more example embodiments.

FIG. 10 depicts an illustrative method for performing real time digitalcontent concealment in response to a surface content change inaccordance with one or more example embodiments.

FIGS. 11A-11B depict graphical user interfaces associated withperformance of real time text/digital content concealment in accordancewith one or more example embodiments.

FIGS. 12A-12C depict image layouts associated with performance of realtime digital content concealment.

FIGS. 13A-13B depict additional image layouts associated withperformance of real time digital content concealment.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

In the following description of the various embodiments, reference ismade to the accompanying drawings identified above and which form a parthereof, and in which is shown by way of illustration various embodimentsin which aspects described herein may be practiced. It is to beunderstood that other embodiments may be utilized and structural andfunctional modifications may be made without departing from the scopedescribed herein. Various aspects are capable of other embodiments andof being practiced or being carried out in various different ways.

As a general introduction to the subject matter described in more detailbelow, aspects described herein are directed towards a method forperforming real time digital content concealment based on user groups.The method describes an end to end framework empowered by deep learningtechniques that, in some applications, detect and recognize plain text,scene text in natural images, and video text. In one or more instances,the method may be used to conceal digital content in streaming content,documents (e.g., word processing files, portable document format (PDF)files, or the like), applications (e.g., graphical user interfaces, orthe like), or the like. The method then conceals text/images in realtime based on users determined to be present in front of a screendisplaying content that includes the text/images.

It is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology used hereinare for the purpose of description and should not be regarded aslimiting. Rather, the phrases and terms used herein are to be giventheir broadest interpretation and meaning. The use of “including” and“comprising” and variations thereof is meant to encompass the itemslisted thereafter and equivalents thereof as well as additional itemsand equivalents thereof. The use of the terms “mounted,” “connected,”“coupled,” “positioned,” “engaged” and similar terms, is meant toinclude both direct and indirect mounting, connecting, coupling,positioning and engaging.

Computing Architecture

Computer software, hardware, and networks may be utilized in a varietyof different system environments, including standalone, networked,remote-access (also known as remote desktop), virtualized, and/orcloud-based environments, among others. FIG. 1 illustrates one exampleof a system architecture and data processing device that may be used toimplement one or more illustrative aspects described herein in astandalone and/or networked environment. Various network nodes 103, 105,107, and 109 may be interconnected via a wide area network (WAN) 101,such as the Internet. Other networks may also or alternatively be used,including private intranets, corporate networks, local area networks(LAN), metropolitan area networks (MAN), wireless networks, personalnetworks (PAN), and the like. Network 101 is for illustration purposesand may be replaced with fewer or additional computer networks. A localarea network 133 may have one or more of any known LAN topology and mayuse one or more of a variety of different protocols, such as Ethernet.Devices 103, 105, 107, and 109 and other devices (not shown) may beconnected to one or more of the networks via twisted pair wires, coaxialcable, fiber optics, radio waves, or other communication media.

The term “network” as used herein and depicted in the drawings refersnot only to systems in which remote storage devices are coupled togethervia one or more communication paths, but also to stand-alone devicesthat may be coupled, from time to time, to such systems that havestorage capability. Consequently, the term “network” includes not only a“physical network” but also a “content network,” which is comprised ofthe data—attributable to a single entity—which resides across allphysical networks.

The components may include data server 103, web server 105, and clientcomputers 107, 109. Data server 103 provides overall access, control andadministration of databases and control software for performing one ormore illustrative aspects describe herein. Data server 103 may beconnected to web server 105 through which users interact with and obtaindata as requested. Alternatively, data server 103 may act as a webserver itself and be directly connected to the Internet. Data server 103may be connected to web server 105 through the local area network 133,the wide area network 101 (e.g., the Internet), via direct or indirectconnection, or via some other network. Users may interact with the dataserver 103 using remote computers 107, 109, e.g., using a web browser toconnect to the data server 103 via one or more externally exposed websites hosted by web server 105. Client computers 107, 109 may be used inconcert with data server 103 to access data stored therein, or may beused for other purposes. For example, from client device 107 a user mayaccess web server 105 using an Internet browser, as is known in the art,or by executing a software application that communicates with web server105 and/or data server 103 over a computer network (such as theInternet).

Servers and applications may be combined on the same physical machines,and retain separate virtual or logical addresses, or may reside onseparate physical machines. FIG. 1 illustrates just one example of anetwork architecture that may be used, and those of skill in the artwill appreciate that the specific network architecture and dataprocessing devices used may vary, and are secondary to the functionalitythat they provide, as further described herein. For example, servicesprovided by web server 105 and data server 103 may be combined on asingle server.

Each component 103, 105, 107, 109 may be any type of known computer,server, or data processing device. Data server 103, e.g., may include aprocessor 111 controlling overall operation of the data server 103. Dataserver 103 may further include random access memory (RAM) 113, read onlymemory (ROM) 115, network interface 117, input/output interfaces 119(e.g., keyboard, mouse, display, printer, etc.), and memory 121.Input/output (I/O) 119 may include a variety of interface units anddrives for reading, writing, displaying, and/or printing data or files.Memory 121 may further store operating system software 123 forcontrolling overall operation of the data processing device 103, controllogic 125 for instructing data server 103 to perform aspects describedherein, and other application software 127 providing secondary, support,and/or other functionality which may or might not be used in conjunctionwith aspects described herein. The control logic 125 may also bereferred to herein as the data server software 125. Functionality of thedata server software 125 may refer to operations or decisions madeautomatically based on rules coded into the control logic 125, mademanually by a user providing input into the system, and/or a combinationof automatic processing based on user input (e.g., queries, dataupdates, etc.).

Memory 121 may also store data used in performance of one or moreaspects described herein, including a first database 129 and a seconddatabase 131. In some embodiments, the first database 129 may includethe second database 131 (e.g., as a separate table, report, etc.). Thatis, the information can be stored in a single database, or separatedinto different logical, virtual, or physical databases, depending onsystem design. Devices 105, 107, and 109 may have similar or differentarchitecture as described with respect to device 103. Those of skill inthe art will appreciate that the functionality of data processing device103 (or device 105, 107, or 109) as described herein may be spreadacross multiple data processing devices, for example, to distributeprocessing load across multiple computers, to segregate transactionsbased on geographic location, user access level, quality of service(QoS), etc.

One or more aspects may be embodied in computer-usable or readable dataand/or computer-executable instructions, such as in one or more programmodules, executed by one or more computers or other devices as describedherein. Generally, program modules include routines, programs, objects,components, data structures, etc. that perform particular tasks orimplement particular abstract data types when executed by a processor ina computer or other device. The modules may be written in a source codeprogramming language that is subsequently compiled for execution, or maybe written in a scripting language such as (but not limited to)HyperText Markup Language (HTML) or Extensible Markup Language (XML).The computer executable instructions may be stored on a computerreadable medium such as a nonvolatile storage device. Any suitablecomputer readable storage media may be utilized, including hard disks,CD-ROMs, optical storage devices, magnetic storage devices, and/or anycombination thereof. In addition, various transmission (non-storage)media representing data or events as described herein may be transferredbetween a source and a destination in the form of electromagnetic wavestraveling through signal-conducting media such as metal wires, opticalfibers, and/or wireless transmission media (e.g., air and/or space).Various aspects described herein may be embodied as a method, a dataprocessing system, or a computer program product. Therefore, variousfunctionalities may be embodied in whole or in part in software,firmware, and/or hardware or hardware equivalents such as integratedcircuits, field programmable gate arrays (FPGA), and the like.Particular data structures may be used to more effectively implement oneor more aspects described herein, and such data structures arecontemplated within the scope of computer executable instructions andcomputer-usable data described herein.

With further reference to FIG. 2, one or more aspects described hereinmay be implemented in a remote-access environment. FIG. 2 depicts anexample system architecture including a computing device 201 in anillustrative computing environment 200 that may be used according to oneor more illustrative aspects described herein. Computing device 201 maybe used as a server 206 a in a single-server or multi-server desktopvirtualization system (e.g., a remote access or cloud system) and can beconfigured to provide virtual machines for client access devices. Thecomputing device 201 may have a processor 203 for controlling overalloperation of the device 201 and its associated components, including RAM205, ROM 207, Input/Output (I/O) module 209, and memory 215.

I/O module 209 may include a mouse, keypad, touch screen, scanner,optical reader, and/or stylus (or other input device(s)) through which auser of computing device 201 may provide input, and may also include oneor more of a speaker for providing audio output and one or more of avideo display device for providing textual, audiovisual, and/orgraphical output. Software may be stored within memory 215 and/or otherstorage to provide instructions to processor 203 for configuringcomputing device 201 into a special purpose computing device in order toperform various functions as described herein. For example, memory 215may store software used by the computing device 201, such as anoperating system 217, application programs 219, and an associateddatabase 221.

Computing device 201 may operate in a networked environment supportingconnections to one or more remote computers, such as terminals 240 (alsoreferred to as client devices). The terminals 240 may be personalcomputers, mobile devices, laptop computers, tablets, or servers thatinclude many or all of the elements described above with respect to thecomputing device 103 or 201. The network connections depicted in FIG. 2include a local area network (LAN) 225 and a wide area network (WAN)229, but may also include other networks. When used in a LAN networkingenvironment, computing device 201 may be connected to the LAN 225through a network interface or adapter 223. When used in a WANnetworking environment, computing device 201 may include a modem orother wide area network interface 227 for establishing communicationsover the WAN 229, such as computer network 230 (e.g., the Internet). Itwill be appreciated that the network connections shown are illustrativeand other means of establishing a communications link between thecomputers may be used. Computing device 201 and/or terminals 240 mayalso be mobile terminals (e.g., mobile phones, smartphones, personaldigital assistants (PDAs), notebooks, etc.) including various othercomponents, such as a battery, speaker, and antennas (not shown).

Aspects described herein may also be operational with numerous othergeneral purpose or special purpose computing system environments orconfigurations. Examples of other computing systems, environments,and/or configurations that may be suitable for use with aspectsdescribed herein include, but are not limited to, personal computers,server computers, hand-held or laptop devices, multiprocessor systems,microprocessor-based systems, set top boxes, programmable consumerelectronics, network personal computers (PCs), minicomputers, mainframecomputers, distributed computing environments that include any of theabove systems or devices, and the like.

As shown in FIG. 2, one or more client devices 240 may be incommunication with one or more servers 206 a-206 n (generally referredto herein as “server(s) 206”). In one embodiment, the computingenvironment 200 may include a network appliance installed between theserver(s) 206 and client machine(s) 240. The network appliance maymanage client/server connections, and in some cases can load balanceclient connections amongst a plurality of backend servers 206.

The client machine(s) 240 may in some embodiments be referred to as asingle client machine 240 or a single group of client machines 240,while server(s) 206 may be referred to as a single server 206 or asingle group of servers 206. In one embodiment a single client machine240 communicates with more than one server 206, while in anotherembodiment a single server 206 communicates with more than one clientmachine 240. In yet another embodiment, a single client machine 240communicates with a single server 206.

A client machine 240 can, in some embodiments, be referenced by any oneof the following non-exhaustive terms: client machine(s); client(s);client computer(s); client device(s); client computing device(s); localmachine; remote machine; client node(s); endpoint(s); or endpointnode(s). The server 206, in some embodiments, may be referenced by anyone of the following non-exhaustive terms: server(s), local machine;remote machine; server farm(s), or host computing device(s).

In one embodiment, the client machine 240 may be a virtual machine. Thevirtual machine may be any virtual machine, while in some embodimentsthe virtual machine may be any virtual machine managed by a Type 1 orType 2 hypervisor, for example, a hypervisor developed by CitrixSystems, IBM, VMware, or any other hypervisor. In some aspects, thevirtual machine may be managed by a hypervisor, while in other aspectsthe virtual machine may be managed by a hypervisor executing on a server206 or a hypervisor executing on a client 240.

Some embodiments include a client device 240 that displays applicationoutput generated by an application remotely executing on a server 206 orother remotely located machine. In these embodiments, the client device240 may execute a virtual machine receiver program or application todisplay the output in an application window, a browser, or other outputwindow. In one example, the application is a desktop, while in otherexamples the application is an application that generates or presents adesktop. A desktop may include a graphical shell providing a userinterface for an instance of an operating system in which local and/orremote applications can be integrated. Applications, as used herein, areprograms that execute after an instance of an operating system (and,optionally, also the desktop) has been loaded.

The server 206, in some embodiments, uses a remote presentation protocolor other program to send data to a thin-client or remote-displayapplication executing on the client to present display output generatedby an application executing on the server 206. The thin-client orremote-display protocol can be any one of the following non-exhaustivelist of protocols: the Independent Computing Architecture (ICA) protocoldeveloped by Citrix Systems, Inc. of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; or the RemoteDesktop Protocol (RDP) manufactured by the Microsoft Corporation ofRedmond, Wash.

A remote computing environment may include more than one server 206a-206 n such that the servers 206 a-206 n are logically grouped togetherinto a server farm 206, for example, in a cloud computing environment.The server farm 206 may include servers 206 that are geographicallydispersed while logically grouped together, or servers 206 that arelocated proximate to each other while logically grouped together.Geographically dispersed servers 206 a-206 n within a server farm 206can, in some embodiments, communicate using a WAN (wide), MAN(metropolitan), or LAN (local), where different geographic regions canbe characterized as: different continents; different regions of acontinent; different countries; different states; different cities;different campuses; different rooms; or any combination of the precedinggeographical locations. In some embodiments the server farm 206 may beadministered as a single entity, while in other embodiments the serverfarm 206 can include multiple server farms.

In some embodiments, a server farm may include servers 206 that executea substantially similar type of operating system platform (e.g.,WINDOWS, UNIX, LINUX, iOS, ANDROID, SYMBIAN, etc.) In other embodiments,server farm 206 may include a first group of one or more servers thatexecute a first type of operating system platform, and a second group ofone or more servers that execute a second type of operating systemplatform.

Server 206 may be configured as any type of server, as needed, e.g., afile server, an application server, a web server, a proxy server, anappliance, a network appliance, a gateway, an application gateway, agateway server, a virtualization server, a deployment server, a SecureSockets Layer (SSL) VPN server, a firewall, a web server, an applicationserver or as a master application server, a server executing an activedirectory, or a server executing an application acceleration programthat provides firewall functionality, application functionality, or loadbalancing functionality. Other server types may also be used.

Some embodiments include a first server 206 a that receives requestsfrom a client machine 240, forwards the request to a second server 206 b(not shown), and responds to the request generated by the client machine240 with a response from the second server 206 b (not shown.) Firstserver 206 a may acquire an enumeration of applications available to theclient machine 240 as well as address information associated with anapplication server 206 hosting an application identified within theenumeration of applications. First server 206 a can then present aresponse to the client's request using a web interface, and communicatedirectly with the client 240 to provide the client 240 with access to anidentified application. One or more clients 240 and/or one or moreservers 206 may transmit data over network 230, e.g., network 101.

FIG. 3 shows a high-level architecture of an illustrative desktopvirtualization system. As shown, the desktop virtualization system maybe single-server or multi-server system, or cloud system, including atleast one virtualization server 301 configured to provide virtualdesktops and/or virtual applications to one or more client accessdevices 240. As used herein, a desktop refers to a graphical environmentor space in which one or more applications may be hosted and/orexecuted. A desktop may include a graphical shell providing a userinterface for an instance of an operating system in which local and/orremote applications can be integrated. Applications may include programsthat execute after an instance of an operating system (and, optionally,also the desktop) has been loaded. Each instance of the operating systemmay be physical (e.g., one operating system per device) or virtual(e.g., many instances of an OS running on a single device). Eachapplication may be executed on a local device, or executed on a remotelylocated device (e.g., remoted).

A computer device 301 may be configured as a virtualization server in avirtualization environment, for example, a single-server, multi-server,or cloud computing environment. Virtualization server 301 illustrated inFIG. 3 can be deployed as and/or implemented by one or more embodimentsof the server 206 illustrated in FIG. 2 or by other known computingdevices. Included in virtualization server 301 is a hardware layer thatcan include one or more physical disks 304, one or more physical devices306, one or more physical processors 308, and one or more physicalmemories 316. In some embodiments, firmware 312 can be stored within amemory element in the physical memory 316 and can be executed by one ormore of the physical processors 308. Virtualization server 301 mayfurther include an operating system 314 that may be stored in a memoryelement in the physical memory 316 and executed by one or more of thephysical processors 308. Still further, a hypervisor 302 may be storedin a memory element in the physical memory 316 and can be executed byone or more of the physical processors 308.

Executing on one or more of the physical processors 308 may be one ormore virtual machines 332A-C (generally 332). Each virtual machine 332may have a virtual disk 326A-C and a virtual processor 328A-C. In someembodiments, a first virtual machine 332A may execute, using a virtualprocessor 328A, a control program 320 that includes a tools stack 324.Control program 320 may be referred to as a control virtual machine,Dom0, Domain 0, or other virtual machine used for system administrationand/or control. In some embodiments, one or more virtual machines 332B-Ccan execute, using a virtual processor 328B-C, a guest operating system330A-B.

Virtualization server 301 may include a hardware layer 310 with one ormore pieces of hardware that communicate with the virtualization server301. In some embodiments, the hardware layer 310 can include one or morephysical disks 304, one or more physical devices 306, one or morephysical processors 308, and one or more physical memory 316. Physicalcomponents 304, 306, 308, and 316 may include, for example, any of thecomponents described above. Physical devices 306 may include, forexample, a network interface card, a video card, a keyboard, a mouse, aninput device, a monitor, a display device, speakers, an optical drive, astorage device, a universal serial bus connection, a printer, a scanner,a network element (e.g., router, firewall, network address translator,load balancer, virtual private network (VPN) gateway, Dynamic HostConfiguration Protocol (DHCP) router, etc.), or any device connected toor communicating with virtualization server 301. Physical memory 316 inthe hardware layer 310 may include any type of memory. Physical memory316 may store data, and in some embodiments may store one or moreprograms, or set of executable instructions. FIG. 3 illustrates anembodiment where firmware 312 is stored within the physical memory 316of virtualization server 301. Programs or executable instructions storedin the physical memory 316 can be executed by the one or more processors308 of virtualization server 301.

Virtualization server 301 may also include a hypervisor 302. In someembodiments, hypervisor 302 may be a program executed by processors 308on virtualization server 301 to create and manage any number of virtualmachines 332. Hypervisor 302 may be referred to as a virtual machinemonitor, or platform virtualization software. In some embodiments,hypervisor 302 can be any combination of executable instructions andhardware that monitors virtual machines executing on a computingmachine. Hypervisor 302 may be Type 2 hypervisor, where the hypervisorexecutes within an operating system 314 executing on the virtualizationserver 301. Virtual machines may then execute at a level above thehypervisor 302. In some embodiments, the Type 2 hypervisor may executewithin the context of a user's operating system such that the Type 2hypervisor interacts with the user's operating system. In otherembodiments, one or more virtualization servers 301 in a virtualizationenvironment may instead include a Type 1 hypervisor (not shown). A Type1 hypervisor may execute on the virtualization server 301 by directlyaccessing the hardware and resources within the hardware layer 310. Thatis, while a Type 2 hypervisor 302 accesses system resources through ahost operating system 314, as shown, a Type 1 hypervisor may directlyaccess all system resources without the host operating system 314. AType 1 hypervisor may execute directly on one or more physicalprocessors 308 of virtualization server 301, and may include programdata stored in the physical memory 316.

Hypervisor 302, in some embodiments, can provide virtual resources tooperating systems 330 or control programs 320 executing on virtualmachines 332 in any manner that simulates the operating systems 330 orcontrol programs 320 having direct access to system resources. Systemresources can include, but are not limited to, physical devices 306,physical disks 304, physical processors 308, physical memory 316, andany other component included in hardware layer 310 of the virtualizationserver 301. Hypervisor 302 may be used to emulate virtual hardware,partition physical hardware, virtualize physical hardware, and/orexecute virtual machines that provide access to computing environments.In still other embodiments, hypervisor 302 may control processorscheduling and memory partitioning for a virtual machine 332 executingon virtualization server 301. Hypervisor 302 may include thosemanufactured by VMWare, Inc., of Palo Alto, Calif.; the XENPROJECThypervisor, an open source product whose development is overseen by theopen source XenProject.org community; HyperV, VirtualServer or virtualPC hypervisors provided by Microsoft, or others. In some embodiments,virtualization server 301 may execute a hypervisor 302 that creates avirtual machine platform on which guest operating systems may execute.In these embodiments, the virtualization server 301 may be referred toas a host server. An example of such a virtualization server is theXENSERVER provided by Citrix Systems, Inc., of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Hypervisor 302 may create one or more virtual machines 332B-C (generally332) in which guest operating systems 330 execute. In some embodiments,hypervisor 302 may load a virtual machine image to create a virtualmachine 332. In other embodiments, the hypervisor 302 may execute aguest operating system 330 within virtual machine 332. In still otherembodiments, virtual machine 332 may execute guest operating system 330.

In addition to creating virtual machines 332, hypervisor 302 may controlthe execution of at least one virtual machine 332. In other embodiments,hypervisor 302 may present at least one virtual machine 332 with anabstraction of at least one hardware resource provided by thevirtualization server 301 (e.g., any hardware resource available withinthe hardware layer 310). In other embodiments, hypervisor 302 maycontrol the manner in which virtual machines 332 access physicalprocessors 308 available in virtualization server 301. Controllingaccess to physical processors 308 may include determining whether avirtual machine 332 should have access to a processor 308, and howphysical processor capabilities are presented to the virtual machine332.

As shown in FIG. 3, virtualization server 301 may host or execute one ormore virtual machines 332. A virtual machine 332 is a set of executableinstructions that, when executed by a processor 308, may imitate theoperation of a physical computer such that the virtual machine 332 canexecute programs and processes much like a physical computing device.While FIG. 3 illustrates an embodiment where a virtualization server 301hosts three virtual machines 332, in other embodiments virtualizationserver 301 can host any number of virtual machines 332. Hypervisor 302,in some embodiments, may provide each virtual machine 332 with a uniquevirtual view of the physical hardware, memory, processor, and othersystem resources available to that virtual machine 332. In someembodiments, the unique virtual view can be based on one or more ofvirtual machine permissions, application of a policy engine to one ormore virtual machine identifiers, a user accessing a virtual machine,the applications executing on a virtual machine, networks accessed by avirtual machine, or any other desired criteria. For instance, hypervisor302 may create one or more unsecure virtual machines 332 and one or moresecure virtual machines 332. Unsecure virtual machines 332 may beprevented from accessing resources, hardware, memory locations, andprograms that secure virtual machines 332 may be permitted to access. Inother embodiments, hypervisor 302 may provide each virtual machine 332with a substantially similar virtual view of the physical hardware,memory, processor, and other system resources available to the virtualmachines 332.

Each virtual machine 332 may include a virtual disk 326A-C (generally326) and a virtual processor 328A-C (generally 328.) The virtual disk326, in some embodiments, is a virtualized view of one or more physicaldisks 304 of the virtualization server 301, or a portion of one or morephysical disks 304 of the virtualization server 301. The virtualizedview of the physical disks 304 can be generated, provided, and managedby the hypervisor 302. In some embodiments, hypervisor 302 provides eachvirtual machine 332 with a unique view of the physical disks 304. Thus,in these embodiments, the particular virtual disk 326 included in eachvirtual machine 332 can be unique when compared with the other virtualdisks 326.

A virtual processor 328 can be a virtualized view of one or morephysical processors 308 of the virtualization server 301. In someembodiments, the virtualized view of the physical processors 308 can begenerated, provided, and managed by hypervisor 302. In some embodiments,virtual processor 328 has substantially all of the same characteristicsof at least one physical processor 308. In other embodiments, virtualprocessor 308 provides a modified view of physical processors 308 suchthat at least some of the characteristics of the virtual processor 328are different than the characteristics of the corresponding physicalprocessor 308.

With further reference to FIG. 4, some aspects described herein may beimplemented in a cloud-based environment. FIG. 4 illustrates an exampleof a cloud computing environment (or cloud system) 400. As seen in FIG.4, client computers 411-414 may communicate with a cloud managementserver 410 to access the computing resources (e.g., host servers 403a-403 b (generally referred herein as “host servers 403”), storageresources 404 a-404 b (generally referred herein as “storage resources404”), and network elements 405 a-405 b (generally referred herein as“network resources 405”)) of the cloud system.

Management server 410 may be implemented on one or more physicalservers. The management server 410 may run, for example, CLOUDPLATFORMby Citrix Systems, Inc. of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., or OPENSTACK, amongothers. Management server 410 may manage various computing resources,including cloud hardware and software resources, for example, hostcomputers 403, data storage devices 404, and networking devices 405. Thecloud hardware and software resources may include private and/or publiccomponents. For example, a cloud may be configured as a private cloud tobe used by one or more particular customers or client computers 411-414and/or over a private network. In other embodiments, public clouds orhybrid public-private clouds may be used by other customers over an openor hybrid networks.

Management server 410 may be configured to provide user interfacesthrough which cloud operators and cloud customers may interact with thecloud system 400. For example, the management server 410 may provide aset of application programming interfaces (APIs) and/or one or morecloud operator console applications (e.g., web-based or standaloneapplications) with user interfaces to allow cloud operators to managethe cloud resources, configure the virtualization layer, manage customeraccounts, and perform other cloud administration tasks. The managementserver 410 also may include a set of APIs and/or one or more customerconsole applications with user interfaces configured to receive cloudcomputing requests from end users via client computers 411-414, forexample, requests to create, modify, or destroy virtual machines withinthe cloud. Client computers 411-414 may connect to management server 410via the Internet or some other communication network, and may requestaccess to one or more of the computing resources managed by managementserver 410. In response to client requests, the management server 410may include a resource manager configured to select and provisionphysical resources in the hardware layer of the cloud system based onthe client requests. For example, the management server 410 andadditional components of the cloud system may be configured toprovision, create, and manage virtual machines and their operatingenvironments (e.g., hypervisors, storage resources, services offered bythe network elements, etc.) for customers at client computers 411-414,over a network (e.g., the Internet), providing customers withcomputational resources, data storage services, networking capabilities,and computer platform and application support. Cloud systems also may beconfigured to provide various specific services, including securitysystems, development environments, user interfaces, and the like.

Certain clients 411-414 may be related, for example, to different clientcomputers creating virtual machines on behalf of the same end user, ordifferent users affiliated with the same company or organization. Inother examples, certain clients 411-414 may be unrelated, such as usersaffiliated with different companies or organizations. For unrelatedclients, information on the virtual machines or storage of any one usermay be hidden from other users.

Referring now to the physical hardware layer of a cloud computingenvironment, availability zones 401-402 (or zones) may refer to acollocated set of physical computing resources. Zones may begeographically separated from other zones in the overall cloud ofcomputing resources. For example, zone 401 may be a first clouddatacenter located in California, and zone 402 may be a second clouddatacenter located in Florida. Management server 410 may be located atone of the availability zones, or at a separate location. Each zone mayinclude an internal network that interfaces with devices that areoutside of the zone, such as the management server 410, through agateway. End users of the cloud (e.g., clients 411-414) might or mightnot be aware of the distinctions between zones. For example, an end usermay request the creation of a virtual machine having a specified amountof memory, processing power, and network capabilities. The managementserver 410 may respond to the user's request and may allocate theresources to create the virtual machine without the user knowing whetherthe virtual machine was created using resources from zone 401 or zone402. In other examples, the cloud system may allow end users to requestthat virtual machines (or other cloud resources) are allocated in aspecific zone or on specific resources 403-405 within a zone.

In this example, each zone 401-402 may include an arrangement of variousphysical hardware components (or computing resources) 403-405, forexample, physical hosting resources (or processing resources), physicalnetwork resources, physical storage resources, switches, and additionalhardware resources that may be used to provide cloud computing servicesto customers. The physical hosting resources in a cloud zone 401-402 mayinclude one or more computer servers 403, such as the virtualizationservers 301 described above, which may be configured to create and hostvirtual machine instances. The physical network resources in a cloudzone 401 or 402 may include one or more network elements 405 (e.g.,network service providers) comprising hardware and/or softwareconfigured to provide a network service to cloud customers, such asfirewalls, network address translators, load balancers, virtual privatenetwork (VPN) gateways, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)routers, and the like. The storage resources in the cloud zone 401-402may include storage disks (e.g., solid state drives (SSDs), magnetichard disks, etc.) and other storage devices.

The example cloud computing environment shown in FIG. 4 also may includea virtualization layer (e.g., as shown in FIGS. 1-3) with additionalhardware and/or software resources configured to create and managevirtual machines and provide other services to customers using thephysical resources in the cloud. The virtualization layer may includehypervisors, as described above in FIG. 3, along with other componentsto provide network virtualizations, storage virtualizations, etc. Thevirtualization layer may be as a separate layer from the physicalresource layer, or may share some or all of the same hardware and/orsoftware resources with the physical resource layer. For example, thevirtualization layer may include a hypervisor installed in each of thevirtualization servers 403 with the physical computing resources. Knowncloud systems may alternatively be used, e.g., WINDOWS AZURE (MicrosoftCorporation of Redmond Wash.), AMAZON EC2 (Amazon.com Inc. of Seattle,Wash.), IBM BLUE CLOUD (IBM Corporation of Armonk, N.Y.), or others.

Enterprise Mobility Management Architecture

FIG. 5 represents an enterprise mobility technical architecture 500 foruse in a “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) environment. The architectureenables a user of a mobile device 502 to both access enterprise orpersonal resources from a mobile device 502 and use the mobile device502 for personal use. The user may access such enterprise resources 504or enterprise services 508 using a mobile device 502 that is purchasedby the user or a mobile device 502 that is provided by the enterprise tothe user. The user may utilize the mobile device 502 for business useonly or for business and personal use. The mobile device 502 may run aniOS operating system, an Android operating system, or the like. Theenterprise may choose to implement policies to manage the mobile device502. The policies may be implemented through a firewall or gateway insuch a way that the mobile device 502 may be identified, secured orsecurity verified, and provided selective or full access to theenterprise resources (e.g., 504 and 508.) The policies may be mobiledevice management policies, mobile application management policies,mobile data management policies, or some combination of mobile device,application, and data management policies. A mobile device 502 that ismanaged through the application of mobile device management policies maybe referred to as an enrolled device.

In some embodiments, the operating system of the mobile device 502 maybe separated into a managed partition 510 and an unmanaged partition512. The managed partition 510 may have policies applied to it to securethe applications running on and data stored in the managed partition510. The applications running on the managed partition 510 may be secureapplications. In other embodiments, all applications may execute inaccordance with a set of one or more policy files received separate fromthe application, and which define one or more security parameters,features, resource restrictions, and/or other access controls that areenforced by the mobile device management system when that application isexecuting on the mobile device 502. By operating in accordance withtheir respective policy file(s), each application may be allowed orrestricted from communications with one or more other applicationsand/or resources, thereby creating a virtual partition. Thus, as usedherein, a partition may refer to a physically partitioned portion ofmemory (physical partition), a logically partitioned portion of memory(logical partition), and/or a virtual partition created as a result ofenforcement of one or more policies and/or policy files across multipleapplications as described herein (virtual partition). Stateddifferently, by enforcing policies on managed applications, thoseapplications may be restricted to only be able to communicate with othermanaged applications and trusted enterprise resources, thereby creatinga virtual partition that is not accessible by unmanaged applications anddevices.

The secure applications may be email applications, web browsingapplications, software-as-a-service (SaaS) access applications, WindowsApplication access applications, and the like. The secure applicationsmay be secure native applications 514, secure remote applications 522executed by a secure application launcher 518, virtualizationapplications 526 executed by a secure application launcher 518, and thelike. The secure native applications 514 may be wrapped by a secureapplication wrapper 520. The secure application wrapper 520 may includeintegrated policies that are executed on the mobile device 502 when thesecure native application 514 is executed on the mobile device 502. Thesecure application wrapper 520 may include meta-data that points thesecure native application 514 running on the mobile device 502 to theresources hosted at the enterprise (e.g., 504 and 508) that the securenative application 514 may require to complete the task requested uponexecution of the secure native application 514. The secure remoteapplications 522 executed by a secure application launcher 518 may beexecuted within the secure application launcher 518. The virtualizationapplications 526 executed by a secure application launcher 518 mayutilize resources on the mobile device 502, at the enterprise resources504, and the like. The resources used on the mobile device 502 by thevirtualization applications 526 executed by a secure applicationlauncher 518 may include user interaction resources, processingresources, and the like. The user interaction resources may be used tocollect and transmit keyboard input, mouse input, camera input, tactileinput, audio input, visual input, gesture input, and the like. Theprocessing resources may be used to present a user interface, processdata received from the enterprise resources 504, and the like. Theresources used at the enterprise resources 504 by the virtualizationapplications 526 executed by a secure application launcher 518 mayinclude user interface generation resources, processing resources, andthe like. The user interface generation resources may be used toassemble a user interface, modify a user interface, refresh a userinterface, and the like. The processing resources may be used to createinformation, read information, update information, delete information,and the like. For example, the virtualization application 526 may recorduser interactions associated with a graphical user interface (GUI) andcommunicate them to a server application where the server applicationwill use the user interaction data as an input to the applicationoperating on the server. In such an arrangement, an enterprise may electto maintain the application on the server side as well as data, files,etc. associated with the application. While an enterprise may elect to“mobilize” some applications in accordance with the principles herein bysecuring them for deployment on the mobile device 502, this arrangementmay also be elected for certain applications. For example, while someapplications may be secured for use on the mobile device 502, othersmight not be prepared or appropriate for deployment on the mobile device502 so the enterprise may elect to provide the mobile user access to theunprepared applications through virtualization techniques. As anotherexample, the enterprise may have large complex applications with largeand complex data sets (e.g., material resource planning applications)where it would be very difficult, or otherwise undesirable, to customizethe application for the mobile device 502 so the enterprise may elect toprovide access to the application through virtualization techniques. Asyet another example, the enterprise may have an application thatmaintains highly secured data (e.g., human resources data, customerdata, engineering data) that may be deemed by the enterprise as toosensitive for even the secured mobile environment so the enterprise mayelect to use virtualization techniques to permit mobile access to suchapplications and data. An enterprise may elect to provide both fullysecured and fully functional applications on the mobile device 502 aswell as a virtualization application 526 to allow access to applicationsthat are deemed more properly operated on the server side. In anembodiment, the virtualization application 526 may store some data,files, etc. on the mobile device 502 in one of the secure storagelocations. An enterprise, for example, may elect to allow certaininformation to be stored on the mobile device 502 while not permittingother information.

In connection with the virtualization application 526, as describedherein, the mobile device 502 may have a virtualization application 526that is designed to present GUIs and then record user interactions withthe GUI. The virtualization application 526 may communicate the userinteractions to the server side to be used by the server sideapplication as user interactions with the application. In response, theapplication on the server side may transmit back to the mobile device502 a new GUI. For example, the new GUI may be a static page, a dynamicpage, an animation, or the like, thereby providing access to remotelylocated resources.

The secure applications 514 may access data stored in a secure datacontainer 528 in the managed partition 510 of the mobile device 502. Thedata secured in the secure data container may be accessed by the securenative applications 514, secure remote applications 522 executed by asecure application launcher 518, virtualization applications 526executed by a secure application launcher 518, and the like. The datastored in the secure data container 528 may include files, databases,and the like. The data stored in the secure data container 528 mayinclude data restricted to a specific secure application 530, sharedamong secure applications 532, and the like. Data restricted to a secureapplication may include secure general data 534 and highly secure data538. Secure general data may use a strong form of encryption such asAdvanced Encryption Standard (AES) 128-bit encryption or the like, whilehighly secure data 538 may use a very strong form of encryption such asAES 256-bit encryption. Data stored in the secure data container 528 maybe deleted from the mobile device 502 upon receipt of a command from thedevice manager 524. The secure applications (e.g., 514, 522, and 526)may have a dual-mode option 540. The dual mode option 540 may presentthe user with an option to operate the secured application in anunsecured or unmanaged mode. In an unsecured or unmanaged mode, thesecure applications may access data stored in an unsecured datacontainer 542 on the unmanaged partition 512 of the mobile device 502.The data stored in an unsecured data container may be personal data 544.The data stored in an unsecured data container 542 may also be accessedby unsecured applications 546 that are running on the unmanagedpartition 512 of the mobile device 502. The data stored in an unsecureddata container 542 may remain on the mobile device 502 when the datastored in the secure data container 528 is deleted from the mobiledevice 502. An enterprise may want to delete from the mobile device 502selected or all data, files, and/or applications owned, licensed orcontrolled by the enterprise (enterprise data) while leaving orotherwise preserving personal data, files, and/or applications owned,licensed or controlled by the user (personal data). This operation maybe referred to as a selective wipe. With the enterprise and personaldata arranged in accordance to the aspects described herein, anenterprise may perform a selective wipe.

The mobile device 502 may connect to enterprise resources 504 andenterprise services 508 at an enterprise, to the public Internet 548,and the like. The mobile device 502 may connect to enterprise resources504 and enterprise services 508 through virtual private networkconnections. The virtual private network connections, also referred toas microVPN or application-specific VPN, may be specific to particularapplications (as illustrated by microVPNs 550, particular devices,particular secured areas on the mobile device (as illustrated by O/S VPN552), and the like. For example, each of the wrapped applications in thesecured area of the mobile device 502 may access enterprise resourcesthrough an application specific VPN such that access to the VPN would begranted based on attributes associated with the application, possibly inconjunction with user or device attribute information. The virtualprivate network connections may carry Microsoft Exchange traffic,Microsoft Active Directory traffic, HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP)traffic, HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) traffic, applicationmanagement traffic, and the like. The virtual private networkconnections may support and enable single-sign-on authenticationprocesses 554. The single-sign-on processes may allow a user to providea single set of authentication credentials, which are then verified byan authentication service 558. The authentication service 558 may thengrant to the user access to multiple enterprise resources 504, withoutrequiring the user to provide authentication credentials to eachindividual enterprise resource 504.

The virtual private network connections may be established and managedby an access gateway 560. The access gateway 560 may include performanceenhancement features that manage, accelerate, and improve the deliveryof enterprise resources 504 to the mobile device 502. The access gateway560 may also re-route traffic from the mobile device 502 to the publicInternet 548, enabling the mobile device 502 to access publiclyavailable and unsecured applications that run on the public Internet548. The mobile device 502 may connect to the access gateway 560 via atransport protocol or network 562. The transport network 562 may use oneor more transport protocols and may be a wired network, wirelessnetwork, cloud network, local area network, metropolitan area network,wide area network, public network, private network, and the like.

The enterprise resources 504 may include email servers, file sharingservers, SaaS applications, Web application servers, Windows applicationservers, and the like. Email servers may include Exchange servers, LotusNotes servers, and the like. File sharing servers may include ShareFileservers, and the like. SaaS applications may include Salesforce, and thelike. Windows application servers may include any application serverthat is built to provide applications that are intended to run on alocal Windows operating system, and the like. The enterprise resources504 may be premise-based resources, cloud-based resources, and the like.The enterprise resources 504 may be accessed by the mobile device 502directly or through the access gateway 560. The enterprise resources 504may be accessed by the mobile device 502 via the transport network 562.

The enterprise services 508 may include authentication services 558,threat detection services 564, device manager services 524, file sharingservices 568, policy manager services 570, social integration services572, application controller services 574, and the like. Authenticationservices 558 may include user authentication services, deviceauthentication services, application authentication services, dataauthentication services, and the like. Authentication services 558 mayuse certificates. The certificates may be stored on the mobile device502, by the enterprise resources 504, and the like. The certificatesstored on the mobile device 502 may be stored in an encrypted locationon the mobile device 502, the certificate may be temporarily stored onthe mobile device 502 for use at the time of authentication, and thelike. Threat detection services 564 may include intrusion detectionservices, unauthorized access attempt detection services, and the like.Unauthorized access attempt detection services may include unauthorizedattempts to access devices, applications, data, and the like. Devicemanagement services 524 may include configuration, provisioning,security, support, monitoring, reporting, and decommissioning services.File sharing services 568 may include file management services, filestorage services, file collaboration services, and the like. Policymanager services 570 may include device policy manager services,application policy manager services, data policy manager services, andthe like. Social integration services 572 may include contactintegration services, collaboration services, integration with socialnetworks such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, and the like.Application controller services 574 may include management services,provisioning services, deployment services, assignment services,revocation services, wrapping services, and the like.

The enterprise mobility technical architecture 500 may include anapplication store 578. The application store 578 may include unwrappedapplications 580, pre-wrapped applications 582, and the like.Applications may be populated in the application store 578 from theapplication controller 574. The application store 578 may be accessed bythe mobile device 502 through the access gateway 560, through the publicInternet 548, or the like. The application store 578 may be providedwith an intuitive and easy to use user interface.

A software development kit 584 may provide a user the capability tosecure applications selected by the user by wrapping the application asdescribed previously in this description. An application that has beenwrapped using the software development kit 584 may then be madeavailable to the mobile device 502 by populating it in the applicationstore 578 using the application controller 574.

The enterprise mobility technical architecture 500 may include amanagement and analytics capability 588. The management and analyticscapability 588 may provide information related to how resources areused, how often resources are used, and the like. Resources may includedevices, applications, data, and the like. How resources are used mayinclude which devices download which applications, which applicationsaccess which data, and the like. How often resources are used mayinclude how often an application has been downloaded, how many times aspecific set of data has been accessed by an application, and the like.

FIG. 6 is another illustrative enterprise mobility management system600. Some of the components of the mobility management system 500described above with reference to FIG. 5 have been omitted for the sakeof simplicity. The architecture of the system 600 depicted in FIG. 6 issimilar in many respects to the architecture of the system 500 describedabove with reference to FIG. 5 and may include additional features notmentioned above.

In this case, the left hand side represents an enrolled mobile device602 with a client agent 604, which interacts with gateway server 606(which includes Access Gateway and application controller functionality)to access various enterprise resources 608 and services 609 such asExchange, Sharepoint, public-key infrastructure (PM) Resources, KerberosResources, Certificate Issuance service, as shown on the right hand sideabove. Although not specifically shown, the mobile device 602 may alsointeract with an enterprise application store (StoreFront) for theselection and downloading of applications.

The client agent 604 acts as the UI (user interface) intermediary forWindows apps/desktops hosted in an Enterprise data center, which areaccessed using the High-Definition User Experience (HDX)/ICA displayremoting protocol. The client agent 604 also supports the installationand management of native applications on the mobile device 602, such asnative iOS or Android applications. For example, the managedapplications 610 (mail, browser, wrapped application) shown in thefigure above are all native applications that execute locally on themobile device 602. Client agent 604 and application management frameworkof this architecture act to provide policy driven managementcapabilities and features such as connectivity and SSO (single sign on)to enterprise resources/services 608. The client agent 604 handlesprimary user authentication to the enterprise, normally to AccessGateway (AG) 606 with SSO to other gateway server components. The clientagent 604 obtains policies from gateway server 606 to control thebehavior of the managed applications 610 on the mobile device 602.

The Secure InterProcess Communication (IPC) links 612 between the nativeapplications 610 and client agent 604 represent a management channel,which may allow a client agent to supply policies to be enforced by theapplication management framework 614 “wrapping” each application. TheIPC channel 612 may also allow client agent 604 to supply credential andauthentication information that enables connectivity and SSO toenterprise resources 608. Finally, the IPC channel 612 may allow theapplication management framework 614 to invoke user interface functionsimplemented by client agent 604, such as online and offlineauthentication.

Communications between the client agent 604 and gateway server 606 areessentially an extension of the management channel from the applicationmanagement framework 614 wrapping each native managed application 610.The application management framework 614 may request policy informationfrom client agent 604, which in turn may request it from gateway server606. The application management framework 614 may requestauthentication, and client agent 604 may log into the gateway servicespart of gateway server 606 (also known as NETSCALER ACCESS GATEWAY).Client agent 604 may also call supporting services on gateway server606, which may produce input material to derive encryption keys for thelocal data vaults 616, or may provide client certificates which mayenable direct authentication to PM protected resources, as more fullyexplained below.

In more detail, the application management framework 614 “wraps” eachmanaged application 610. This may be incorporated via an explicit buildstep, or via a post-build processing step. The application managementframework 614 may “pair” with client agent 604 on first launch of anapplication 610 to initialize the Secure IPC channel 612 and obtain thepolicy for that application. The application management framework 614may enforce relevant portions of the policy that apply locally, such asthe client agent login dependencies and some of the containment policiesthat restrict how local OS services may be used, or how they mayinteract with the managed application 610.

The application management framework 614 may use services provided byclient agent 604 over the Secure IPC channel 612 to facilitateauthentication and internal network access. Key management for theprivate and shared data vaults 616 (containers) may be also managed byappropriate interactions between the managed applications 610 and clientagent 604. Vaults 616 may be available only after online authentication,or may be made available after offline authentication if allowed bypolicy. First use of vaults 616 may require online authentication, andoffline access may be limited to at most the policy refresh periodbefore online authentication is again required.

Network access to internal resources may occur directly from individualmanaged applications 610 through Access Gateway 606. The applicationmanagement framework 614 may be responsible for orchestrating thenetwork access on behalf of each managed application 610. Client agent604 may facilitate these network connections by providing suitable timelimited secondary credentials obtained following online authentication.Multiple modes of network connection may be used, such as reverse webproxy connections and end-to-end VPN-style tunnels 618.

The Mail and Browser managed applications 610 have special status andmay make use of facilities that might not be generally available toarbitrary wrapped applications. For example, the Mail application 610may use a special background network access mechanism that allows it toaccess an Exchange server 608 over an extended period of time withoutrequiring a full AG logon. The Browser application 610 may use multipleprivate data vaults 616 to segregate different kinds of data.

This architecture may support the incorporation of various othersecurity features. For example, gateway server 606 (including itsgateway services) in some cases may not need to validate activedirectory (AD) passwords. It can be left to the discretion of anenterprise whether an AD password may be used as an authenticationfactor for some users in some situations. Different authenticationmethods may be used if a user is online or offline (i.e., connected ornot connected to a network).

Step up authentication is a feature wherein gateway server 606 mayidentify managed native applications 610 that are allowed to have accessto highly classified data requiring strong authentication, and ensurethat access to these applications is only permitted after performingappropriate authentication, even if this means a re-authentication isrequired by the user after a prior weaker level of login.

Another security feature of this solution is the encryption of the datavaults 616 (containers) on the mobile device 602. The vaults 616 may beencrypted so that all on-device data including files, databases, andconfigurations are protected. For on-line vaults, the keys may be storedon the server (gateway server 606), and for off-line vaults, a localcopy of the keys may be protected by a user password or biometricvalidation. If or when data is stored locally on the mobile device 602in the secure container 616, it may be preferred that a minimum of AES256 encryption algorithm be utilized.

Other secure container features may also be implemented. For example, alogging feature may be included, wherein security events happeninginside a managed application 610 may be logged and reported to thebackend. Data wiping may be supported, such as if or when the managedapplication 610 detects tampering, associated encryption keys may bewritten over with random data, leaving no hint on the file system thatuser data was destroyed. Screenshot protection may be another feature,where an application may prevent any data from being stored inscreenshots. For example, the key window's hidden property may be set toYES. This may cause whatever content is currently displayed on thescreen to be hidden, resulting in a blank screenshot where any contentwould normally reside.

Local data transfer may be prevented, such as by preventing any datafrom being locally transferred outside the application container, e.g.,by copying it or sending it to an external application. A keyboard cachefeature may operate to disable the autocorrect functionality forsensitive text fields. SSL certificate validation may be operable so theapplication specifically validates the server SSL certificate instead ofit being stored in the keychain. An encryption key generation featuremay be used such that the key used to encrypt data on the mobile device602 is generated using a passphrase or biometric data supplied by theuser (if offline access is required). It may be XORed with another keyrandomly generated and stored on the server side if offline access isnot required. Key Derivation functions may operate such that keysgenerated from the user password use KDFs (key derivation functions,notably Password-Based Key Derivation Function 2 (PBKDF2)) rather thancreating a cryptographic hash of it. The latter makes a key susceptibleto brute force or dictionary attacks.

Further, one or more initialization vectors may be used in encryptionmethods. An initialization vector will cause multiple copies of the sameencrypted data to yield different cipher text output, preventing bothreplay and cryptanalytic attacks. This will also prevent an attackerfrom decrypting any data even with a stolen encryption key. Further,authentication then decryption may be used, wherein application data isdecrypted only after the user has authenticated within the application.Another feature may relate to sensitive data in memory, which may bekept in memory (and not in disk) only when it's needed. For example,login credentials may be wiped from memory after login, and encryptionkeys and other data inside objective-C instance variables are notstored, as they may be easily referenced. Instead, memory may bemanually allocated for these.

An inactivity timeout may be implemented, wherein after a policy-definedperiod of inactivity, a user session is terminated.

Data leakage from the application management framework 614 may beprevented in other ways. For example, if or when a managed application610 is put in the background, the memory may be cleared after apredetermined (configurable) time period. When backgrounded, a snapshotmay be taken of the last displayed screen of the application to fastenthe foregrounding process. The screenshot may contain confidential dataand hence should be cleared.

Another security feature may relate to the use of an OTP (one timepassword) 620 without the use of an AD (active directory) 622 passwordfor access to one or more applications. In some cases, some users do notknow (or are not permitted to know) their AD password, so these usersmay authenticate using an OTP 620 such as by using a hardware OTP systemlike SecurID (OTPs may be provided by different vendors also, such asEntrust or Gemalto). In some cases, after a user authenticates with auser ID, a text may be sent to the user with an OTP 620. In some cases,this may be implemented only for online use, with a prompt being asingle field.

An offline password may be implemented for offline authentication forthose managed applications 610 for which offline use is permitted viaenterprise policy. For example, an enterprise may want StoreFront to beaccessed in this manner In this case, the client agent 604 may requirethe user to set a custom offline password and the AD password is notused. Gateway server 606 may provide policies to control and enforcepassword standards with respect to the minimum length, character classcomposition, and age of passwords, such as described by the standardWindows Server password complexity requirements, although theserequirements may be modified.

Another feature may relate to the enablement of a client sidecertificate for certain applications 610 as secondary credentials (forthe purpose of accessing PM protected web resources via the applicationmanagement framework micro VPN feature). For example, a managedapplication 610 may utilize such a certificate. In this case,certificate-based authentication using ActiveSync protocol may besupported, wherein a certificate from the client agent 604 may beretrieved by gateway server 606 and used in a keychain. Each managedapplication 610 may have one associated client certificate, identifiedby a label that is defined in gateway server 606.

Gateway server 606 may interact with an enterprise special purpose webservice to support the issuance of client certificates to allow relevantmanaged applications to authenticate to internal PM protected resources.

The client agent 604 and the application management framework 614 may beenhanced to support obtaining and using client certificates forauthentication to internal PM protected network resources. More than onecertificate may be supported, such as to match various levels ofsecurity and/or separation requirements. The certificates may be used bythe Mail and Browser managed applications 610, and ultimately byarbitrary wrapped applications 610 (provided those applications use webservice style communication patterns where it is reasonable for theapplication management framework to mediate HTTPS requests).

Application management client certificate support on iOS may rely onimporting a public-key cryptography standards (PKCS) 12 BLOB (BinaryLarge Object) into the iOS keychain in each managed application 610 foreach period of use. Application management framework client certificatesupport may use a HTTPS implementation with private in-memory keystorage. The client certificate may not be present in the iOS keychainand may not be persisted except potentially in “online-only” data valuethat is strongly protected.

Mutual SSL or TLS may also be implemented to provide additional securityby requiring that a mobile device 602 is authenticated to theenterprise, and vice versa. Virtual smart cards for authentication togateway server 606 may also be implemented.

Both limited and full Kerberos support may be additional features. Thefull support feature relates to an ability to do full Kerberos login toActive Directory (AD) 622, using an AD password or trusted clientcertificate, and obtain Kerberos service tickets to respond to HTTPNegotiate authentication challenges. The limited support feature relatesto constrained delegation in Citrix Access Gateway Enterprise Edition(AGEE), where AGEE supports invoking Kerberos protocol transition so itcan obtain and use Kerberos service tickets (subject to constraineddelegation) in response to HTTP Negotiate authentication challenges.This mechanism works in reverse web proxy (aka corporate virtual privatenetwork (CVPN)) mode, and when HTTP (but not HTTPS) connections areproxied in VPN and MicroVPN mode.

Another feature may relate to application container locking and wiping,which may automatically occur upon jail-break or rooting detections, andoccur as a pushed command from administration console, and may include aremote wipe functionality even when a managed application 610 is notrunning.

A multi-site architecture or configuration of enterprise applicationstore and an application controller may be supported that allows usersto be serviced from one of several different locations in case offailure.

In some cases, managed applications 610 may be allowed to access acertificate and private key via an API (for example, OpenSSL). Trustedmanaged applications 610 of an enterprise may be allowed to performspecific Public Key operations with an application's client certificateand private key. Various use cases may be identified and treatedaccordingly, such as if or when an application behaves like a browserand no certificate access is required, if or when an application reads acertificate for “who am I,” if or when an application uses thecertificate to build a secure session token, and if or when anapplication uses private keys for digital signing of important data(e.g. transaction log) or for temporary data encryption.

Real Time Digital Content Concealment

FIG. 7 depicts an illustrative computing environment configured toperform real time digital content concealment based on viewers of thecontent (e.g., user groups) in accordance with one or more exampleembodiments. Referring to FIG. 7, computing environment 700 may includeone or more computer systems. For example, computing environment 700 mayinclude a client device 702 and a content concealment platform 703.

Client device 702 may be a computing device (e.g., smart phone, tabletcomputer, laptop computer, television, desktop computer, or the like)that may be used to display content. For example, the client device 702may be used by an employee of an institution to present or otherwisedisplay confidential information that only other employees or aparticular group of the employees of the institution should have accessto. Additionally or alternatively, the client device 702 may be used byan individual to display content that may contain text that might notsuitable for particular groups of individuals due to othercharacteristics (e.g., age, or the like). In one or more instances, theclient device 702 may include a user discovery module 702 a that may beconfigured to perform facial detection and recognition, aggregate usersby groups, and detect changes in present groups. In one or moreinstances, the user discovery module 702 a may part of softwareinstalled at the client device 702 (e.g., a remote desktop application,or the like). In one or more instances, the client device 702 mayinclude a communication interface that may configure the client device702 to communicate with one or more other computing devices, such as thecontent concealment platform 703. In one or more instances, thecommunication interface may be a hardware component such as a networkinterface configured to support communication between the client device102 and one or more networks (e.g., network 701, or the like).

As illustrated in greater detail below, content concealment platform 703may be a computer system that includes one or more computing devicesand/or other computer components (e.g., processors, memories,communication interfaces). In one or more instances, content concealmentplatform 703 may correspond to one or more servers configured to performimage analysis and protection, text or image detection and recognition,and sensitive words/images checking in response to determination of achange in present user groups and/or content.

Content concealment platform 703 may include one or more processors 711,memory 712, and communication interface 713. A data bus may interconnectprocessor 711, memory 712, and communication interface 713.Communication interface 713 may be a network interface configured tosupport communication between the content concealment platform 703 andone or more networks (e.g., network 701, or the like). Memory 712 mayinclude one or more program modules having instructions that whenexecuted by processor 711 cause content concealment platform 703 toperform one or more functions described herein and/or access one or moredatabases that may store and/or otherwise maintain information which maybe used by such program modules and/or processor 711. In some instances,the one or more program modules and/or databases may be stored by and/ormaintained in different memory units of content concealment platform 703and/or by different computing devices that may form and/or otherwisemake up content concealment platform 703. For example, memory 712 mayhave, host, store, and/or include image analysis and protection module712 a, detection and recognition module 712 b, and sensitive contentchecking module 712 c. Image analysis and protection module 712 a mayhave instructions that direct and/or cause content concealment platform703 to execute advanced techniques for image analysis and protection(e.g., by building an image layout by text type, detectingposition/content changes in the image layout, and concealing textaccordingly), as discussed in greater detail below. In one or moreinstances, image analysis and protection module 712 a may be responsiblefor concealment of on-screen regions based on output of the detectionand recognition module 712 b in situations where a user arrival/leaveevent and/or a surface content update event occurs. In one or moreinstances, the surface content update event may correspond to a changein visible content being output for display. Detection and recognitionmodule 712 b may have instructions that direct and/or cause contentconcealment platform 703 execute advanced techniques for text/imagedetection and recognition (e.g., performing a particular method of textdetection and recognition based on a text type and generating proposedtext areas in the image layout). Sensitive content checking module 712 cmay have instructions that direct and/or cause content concealmentplatform 703 to execute advance techniques to determine whether contentcontains words or images that should be concealed (e.g., identifyingwords or images to conceal based on group rules, calculating positionsfor the words or images to conceal, and notifying the image analysis andprotection module 712 a that the words or images should be concealed).

Computing environment 700 may also include one or more networks, whichmay interconnect client device 702 and content concealment platform 703.For example, computing environment 700 may include a network 701 (whichmay e.g., interconnect client device 702 and content concealmentplatform 703). In one or more instances, the network 701 may be aninternal network, an external network, a secure network, a publicnetwork, a hard-wired network, a wireless network, or the like.

In one or more arrangements, client device 702, content concealmentplatform 703, and/or the other systems included in computing environment700 may be any type of computing device capable of receiving a userinterface (e.g., browser interface, virtual desktop interface, streamingcontent, or the like), receiving input via the user interface, andcommunicating the received input to one or more other computing devices.For example, client device 702, content concealment platform 703, and/orthe other systems included in computing environment 700 may in someinstances, be and/or include server computers, desktop computers, laptopcomputers, tablet computers, smart phones, or the like that may includeone or more processors, memories, communication interfaces, storagedevices, and/or other components. As noted above, and as illustrated ingreater detail below, any and/or all of client device 702 and contentconcealment platform 703 may, in some instances, be special purposecomputing devices configured to perform specific functions.

To further illustrate the computing environment 700, as an example ofthe component described above, an employee (e.g., a manager with certainsecurity privileges) of an institution may be working at a desktopcomputer (e.g., client device 702) using confidential information.Another employee (e.g., an intern without the security privileges) maywalk into the office to ask the manager a question. In this instance,the digital content displayed at the client device 702 (e.g., which maybe related to the confidential information) should be concealed from theintern. Accordingly, the content concealment platform 703 may be used toconceal any confidential information/images from the client device 702so that they are not viewed by the intern.

FIGS. 8A-8B depict an illustrative event sequence for deploying anenhanced processing system that performs real time digital contentconcealment in accordance with one or more example embodiments. Forconvenience, steps 801-815 are shown across FIGS. 8A-8B. However, itshould be understood that steps 801-815 represent a single eventsequence (e.g., step 813 in FIG. 8B may follow step 812 in FIG. 8A).Referring to FIG. 8A, at step 801, the client device 702 may displaycontent. In one or more instances, in displaying the content, the clientdevice 702 may display content specific to a particular institutionand/or a particular group of employees within the institution.Accordingly, the content may contain text or other information thatshould be displayed to certain individuals and concealed from others.Additionally or alternatively, in displaying the content, the clientdevice 702 may display content that contains text, images, or otherinformation that may be appropriate for individuals above apredetermined age threshold and inappropriate for individuals below thepredetermined age threshold. Accordingly, the content may similarlycontain information that should be displayed to certain individuals butconcealed from others. For example, in displaying the content, theclient device 702 may display a graphical user interface similar tographical user interface 1105, which is shown in FIG. 11A. In thisexample, in displaying graphical user interface 1105, the client device702 may display confidential information, sensitive words (e.g.,explicit language, or the like), or other text, images (e.g., a checkwith account information, explicit content, or the like), or contentthat should be displayed to some individuals but concealed from others.

In one or more instances, in displaying the content (e.g., documents,multi-media content, graphical user interfaces, applications, or thelike), the client device 702 may display plain text, scene text (e.g.,text embedded in an image), video text, or the like. In one or moreinstances where plain text or scene text are displayed, the content maybe static content. In one or more instances where video text isdisplayed, the content may be dynamic content. In some instances, thecontent may contain a combination of these various text types.

At step 802, to determine whether or not portions of the content shouldbe concealed, the client device 702 may perform facial detection andrecognition. In one or more instances, the client device 702 may performfacial detection and recognition using the user discovery module 702 a(as described above) embedded in the client device 702. In someinstances, the user discovery module 702 a may be integrated into aremote desktop application installed at the client device 702.

In some instances, the client device 702 may capture an image or videocontent corresponding to individuals within a predetermined proximity ofthe client device 702. In one or more instances, a dynamic proximity maybe used that is adjusted based on information received by the clientdevice 702 (e.g., room dimensions, room layout, or the like). In theseinstances, the client device 702 may capture the image or video contentcorresponding to individuals capable of viewing the content beingdisplayed by the client device 702. In one or more instances, the clientdevice 702 may perform facial detection on the image to determinelocations and sizes of faces corresponding to present individuals. Inaddition, the client device 702 may implement a facial recognitionalgorithm to determine individuals associated with the faces. Inperforming facial recognition, the client device 702 may compare thecaptured image with an image of a user to authenticate the user (e.g.,perform a one to one comparison for authentication). Additionally oralternatively, the client device 702 may compare the image with aplurality of facial images in a stored facial recognition database. Inone or more instances, the stored facial recognition database may be ameans for storing and maintaining facial recognition data (e.g., images,facial recognition scores, confidence measures, or the like). In one ormore instances, the facial recognition database may be maintainedremotely at the content concealment platform 703 or another computingplatform (e.g., one or more external servers). Additionally oralternatively, the facial recognition database may be maintained locallyat the client device 702.

In one or more instances, the client device 702 may identify anindividual based on a determination that the image has a matchingcorrelation with one of the plurality of stored facial images thatexceeds a predetermined correlation threshold (e.g., perform a one to Ncomparison for authentication, where N is a number of stored facialimages). Accordingly, the client device 702 may performidentification/facial recognition of the individuals. In some instances,individuals likely to be within a predetermined proximity of the clientdevice 702 (e.g., capable of viewing the content) may initially providethe client device 702 with an identification image that may be storedand later used for identification/facial recognition comparisons. Forexample, all employees of an institution, members of a family, or othergroups may initially take pictures of themselves using the client device702.

In one or more instances, the client device 702 may implement a lightweight face recognition technique using local binary patterns (LBP) totrack movement of faces within view of a camera of the client device 702(e.g. a webcam mounted on a monitor). In these instances, if an existingindividual (e.g., a previously recognized individual) does not leave thecamera view, it might not be necessary to request a full useridentification again merely because the individual moved. Accordingly,by tracking the movement, and due to the small number of faces in frontof the client device 702, real time facial recognition may be achieved.This may make the process of facial recognition more efficient in termsof both time and computational resources. If, however, a new individualarrives in front of the client device 702, the client device 702 mayimplement a principle component analysis (PCA) algorithm. Inimplementing the PCA algorithm, the client device 702 may be caused toaccess a local cache that stores faces buffered during a time period(e.g., the last twenty four hours). If the client device 702 is unableto determine a match between the new individual and one of the facesfrom the local cache, the full facial recognition algorithms asdescribed above may be run to compare the new individual's face againstthe full set of images in the facial recognition database. In doing so,the client device 702 may more efficiently identify individuals who wererecently already identified.

At step 803, after performing facial detection and recognition, theclient device 702 may aggregate the individuals by groups as defined ina stored access role group database to build an active group list. Inone or more instances, the access role group database may be maintainedby a computing device separate from the client device 702, and theclient device 702 may establish connections to the access role groupdatabase and communication accordingly. In some instances, the accessrole group database may include correlations of individuals to groups.For example, each individual may have a user identifier (e.g., ausername, employee number, or the like that may identify a single user)and each group may correspond to a group identifier (e.g., an employeetitle, a security level, an age group, or the like that may identify oneor more users who share particular characteristics). In these instances,the group identifier for a particular group may be assigned to anindividual. In some instances, individuals may be assigned to multiplegroups. Each group may have different rules for concealing text or othercontent. As an example, a cell phone number may be concealed fromindividuals in “Group A,” whereas cell phone numbers may be visible toindividuals in “Group B,” but home addresses corresponding to the cellphone numbers may be concealed. In some instances, the groups may bedefined based on employment status, job title, sub groups within acompany, age, or the like.

At step 804, the client device 702 may determine whether a group changehas occurred. In some instances, after aggregating the users by group,the client device 702 may determine that an individual corresponds to agroup that was not previously present within view of a camera or otherimage capture device of the client device. Additionally oralternatively, after aggregating the users by group, the client device702 may determine that a previously represented group is no longerrepresented (e.g., no individuals from that group remain present at theclient device 702). In one or more instances, the client device 702 maymonitor for group changes at a predetermined interval.

In one or more instances, the client device 702 may maintain an activegroup list that includes group nodes corresponding to each group and anindication of present individuals in each group. For example, inmaintaining the active group list, the client device 702 may maintain alist of individuals who are in front of the camera of the client device702. Additionally or alternatively, in maintaining the active grouplist, the client device 702 may maintain a list of individuals who areparticipating in an online meeting and sharing images/video throughwebcams. By applying the active group list concept to online meetingsoftware, the client device 702 may increase security and prevent lossof confidential information during screen sharing of virtual meetings.In one or more instances, the client device 702 may update the activegroup list in response to arrival or departure of any individual. Tofurther illustrate, several examples are described below.

In a first example, there may be four individuals within the camera viewof the client device 702 and the client device 702 may build thefollowing active group list: Group A-User 1, User 13; GroupB-User 2;Group D-User 7. In one or more instances, the client device 702 maycache facial vectors built by the PCA algorithm at step 802 for Users 1,13, 2, and 7. Additionally, the client device 702 may maintain similarfacial feature vectors built by the LBP algorithms in memory to allowfast track analysis of movement in the camera view. In this example,none of the individuals leave or arrive, although some of the presentindividuals may move into camera view. Accordingly, in this example, theclient device 702 might not modify the active group list, the PCA cache,or the LBP memory.

In a second example, the same facts from the above example apply,however, a new user 5 from group A may arrive into camera view. Inresponse, the client device 702 may update the active group list asfollows: Group A-User 1, User 13, User 5; Group B-User 2; Group D-User7. Similarly, the client device 702 may update the LBP memory to includeUser 5 for later motion tracking. Additionally, the client device 702may retrieve group information for User 5 from the PCA cache ifpossible. Otherwise, the client device 702 may retrieve groupinformation from the full facial recognition database.

In yet a third example, building on the facts from example two above,User 7 and User 13 may leave the camera view. In this example, theclient device 702 may make the following changes to the active grouplist, LBP memory, and PCA cache. First, the client device 702 may removegroup D from the active group list because User 7 was the only presentindividual in that group. In addition, client device 702 may detach User13 from the Group A node (e.g., remove User 13 from the list of userswithin the camera view who are associated with Group A). Accordingly,the active group list in this third example may be as follows: GroupA-User 1, User 5; Group B-User 2. In one or more instances, the clientdevice 702 may move group D to an inactive group list that may resemble:Group D-User 7. In addition, the client device 702 may delete User 7 andUser 13 from LBP memory, but maintain them in the PCA cache forsubsequent expedited access if they return to the camera view within apredetermined period (e.g., twenty four hours).

In yet a fourth example, building now on the facts from example three,Users 3 and 6 may arrive in the camera view, and may belong to a GroupC. In this example, the client device 702 may add User 3 and User 6 tothe active group list, which may result in the following active grouplist: Group A-User 1, User 5; Group B-User 2; Group C-User 3, User 6. Inaddition to adding User 3 and User 6 to the active group list, theclient device 702 may add their information into the LBP memory and thePCA cache.

Accordingly, these examples illustrate that in some instances, there maybe a change in the groups maintained in the active group list. In theseinstances, the client device 702 may proceed to step 805 to establish aconnection with content concealment platform 703. In other instances,there might not be a change in the groups maintained in the active grouplist. In these instances, the client device 702 may continue to monitorfor group changes until one is determined.

At step 805, the client device 702 may establish a connection with thecontent concealment platform 703. In one or more instances, the clientdevice 702 may establish a wireless data connection with the contentconcealment platform 703 to link the client device 702 to the contentconcealment platform 703. Alternatively, the client device 702 mayestablish a wired data connection with the content concealment platform703 to link the client device 702 to the content concealment platform703. In one or more instances, once the client device 702 initiallyestablishes a connection with the content concealment platform 703, thisstep might not be repeated.

At step 806, if the client device 702 determined, at step 804, thatthere was a change in the active group list, the client device 702 maygenerate an indication of the group change and may send the indicationof the group change to the content concealment platform 703. Forinstance, in examples one and two as described above at step 804,because there is no group level change in the active group list, theclient device 702 might not generate or send a notification to thecontent concealment platform 703 because additional semantic analysismight not be needed. In contrast, in examples three and four describedabove at step 804, because a user group drops and a user group is added,respectively, in these examples, the client device 702 may generate andsend an indication of the group change to the content concealmentplatform 703 for purposes of having additional semantic analysisperformed on the updated active group list. In one or more instances, inperforming the additional semantic analysis, the client device 702 maydetermine whether additional or less concealment should be applied tothe displayed content based on the group change. This additionalsemantic analysis is described below with regard to steps 808-814. Inone or more instances, the client device 702 may send the indication ofthe group change to the content concealment platform 703 while thewireless data connection is established.

At step 807, the content concealment platform 703 may receive theindication of the group change from the client device 702. In receivingthe indication, the content concealment platform 703 may receive a textmessage, a multimedia message, an alert/notification message, or thelike. In one or more instances, the content concealment platform 703 mayreceive the indication of the group change via the communicationinterface 713 and while the wireless data connection is established. Inone or more instances, the content concealment platform 703 may receivethe indication of the group change at the image analysis and protectionmodule 712 a. Additionally or alternatively, the content concealmentplatform 703 may determine a surface content update. In determining thesurface content update, the content concealment platform 703 maydetermine that a visual change has occurred in content displayed by theclient device 702. For example, the content concealment platform 703 maydetermine that the displayed content has changed from the contentoriginally displayed at step 801. In response to receiving theindication of the group change, determining the surface content update,or a combination of both, the content concealment platform 703 mayconceal some or all of the digital content shown on the display of theclient device 702 based on the active user group list.

As an introduction to the content concealment process (which isdescribed further below), the process may be initiated by an imageanalysis operation which is performed by the image analysis andprotection module 712 a in an event driven manner. The contentconcealment platform 703 may perform the image analysis operation, insome instances, by highlighting plain text regions, scene text regions,and video text regions in a bitmap, corresponding to the displayedcontent, using a content tagging process. The content concealmentplatform 703 may then use the detection and recognition module 712 b toapply traditional optical character recognition (OCR) to the plain text,and to apply deep learning convolutional neural networks (CNN) to thescene text (e.g., text imbedded in static a graphic or image) and videotext. Following the analysis operation, the content concealment platform703 may use the image analysis and protection module 712 a to leveragetext or image detection/recognition and semantic analysis to concealnon-compliant regions or expose newly compliant regions of the displayedcontent (in terms of the content bitmap) based on results of thesensitive content checking module 712 c.

To save overhead (e.g., time, processing resources, or the like), oftext or image detection/recognition and semantic analysis, the imageanalysis and protection module 712 a of the content concealment platform703 may use an event driven manner to perform the analysis operation,and may leverage text detection/recognition and semantic analysis forthe protection operation. As indicated above, these trigger events(e.g., events that trigger the analysis operation) may include a grouplevel change event (e.g., a change in individuals within the camera viewthat results in a change in groups associated with the individualswithin the camera view), a surface content update event, or acombination of the two.

With regard to the group level change, the content concealment platform703 may receive an indication that an active group list change has beencaused by a user arrival in or exit from the camera view from the userdiscovery module 702 a of the client device 702. With regard to a userarrival event, as described above, in some instances, a new user mayarrive in the camera view who is associated with a group identifier thatmight not match group identifiers corresponding to the active grouplist. In some of these instances, the displayed content may be improperfor the arriving user. Accordingly, regions of the content may beanalyzed based on their text or image type to determine whetherparticular content (e.g., text, image, or the like), should be concealedfor the new arriving user. This is similar to User 3 and User 6 inexample four, described above with regard to step 804. In someinstances, the new arriving user may be assigned to an existing group inthe active group list. In these instances, additional concealment mightnot be performed. This is similar User 5 in example two, described abovewith regard to step 804. With regard to a user leave event (e.g. a userleaves the camera view), in some instances, a final user in a group ofthe active group list may leave the camera view. In these instances, agroup change indication (e.g., an indication of a change in groupsassociated with the users who are within the camera view) may bereceived indicating that text/image semantic analysis should beperformed based on the users remaining in the camera view. In otherwords, certain content (e.g., text, images, or the like) that waspreviously concealed due to the leaving user may now be exposed orotherwise displayed via the client device 702. This is similar to User 7in example three described above with regard to step 804. In otherinstances, a user may leave but the group may remain in the active grouplist, similar to User 13 in example two described above with regard tostep 804. In these instances, no new content may be exposed. As aresult, the content concealment platform 703 may avoid reprocessing thecontent in response to the user leaving if there is no change in groupsassociated with users remaining in the camera view (e.g., if a user withthe same viewing policies still is present, the concealed content wouldnot be changed). This may cause efficient concealment of the content dueto a reduction in processing to be performed in certain situations.

With regard to the surface content update, a bitmap is generated in avideo buffer by the image analysis and protection module 712 a of thecontent concealment platform based on an independent computingarchitecture (ICA) graphic provider. As a simple example, there may be achange in the content displayed on the display of the client device 702.Accordingly, the content may have been updated to include content thatshould be concealed. In other instances, the surface content may havebeen updated to include content that might not need to be concealed. Inone or more instances, the content concealment platform 703 may monitorfor surface content updates continuously or at a predetermined interval(e.g., every five seconds, or the like). In one or more instances, thecontent concealment platform may monitor for surface content updates bydetermining a change in data provided by an ICA graphic provider (e.g.,determining that content displayed at the client device 702 changed).These processes are further described in further detail below.

At step 808, after receiving a group change indication and/ordetermining a surface content update, the content concealment platform703 may use the image analysis and protection module 712 a to build animage layout of the displayed content. In building the image layout, thecontent concealment platform 703 may divide a bitmap corresponding tothe displayed content into a batch of cells, for example a grid of 16*16cells. Individual cells can be merged with adjacent cells to form largerregions based on whether the displayed content is static or dynamic Ingenerating the image layout, the content concealment platform 703 maygenerate a bitmap similar bitmap 1205, which is displayed in FIG. 12A.In determining whether a region is dynamic, the content concealmentplatform 703 may determine that the region contains less than apredetermined percentage (e.g., 30%) of the cells in the grid (e.g., the16*16 described above), is updated above a threshold frequency (e.g., 10frames per second (FPS)), is larger than a transient minimum area (e.g.,10,000 pixels), and that relative position of the region is not changedin comparison to previously displayed frames. In determining thetransient regions of the bitmap, the content concealment platform 703may mark cells corresponding to the characteristics described above. Forexample, the black cells in bitmap 1210, shown in FIG. 12B, may bemarked as transient regions of the bitmap 1210, whereas the remainingregions may be marked as static regions. In one or more instances, theregions may be marked by associating them with flags indicative of theregion type. Additionally or alternatively, a database may be maintainedin which the regions are identified along with their region type.

After differentiating between transient and static regions of thebitmap, the content concealment platform 703 may use the image analysisand protection module 712 a to determine whether the static regionscontain scene text (e.g., text embedded in a rich background such as avideo, flash, graphics interchange format (GIF) image, or the like) orplain text (e.g., text displayed on a simple background) based onwhether the cells contain lossless text (which is defined as follows).To determine whether a cell is lossless, the content concealmentplatform 703 may use the image analysis and protection module 712 a todetermine differences in pixel values per cell. In one or moreinstances, in determining the pixel values, the content concealmentplatform 703 may determine a number, for each pixel, that isrepresentative of the brightness of the pixel (e.g., 0, 150, 250, or thelike). If the content concealment platform 703 determines that a cellcontains primarily (e.g., over 50%) differences in pixel values thatexceed a threshold, the content concealment platform 703 may determinethat the cell includes lossless text. If the content concealmentplatform 703 determines that the cell contains lossless text, it maydetermine that the cell contains scene text (e.g., if the cell containslossless text it contains scene text). If the content concealmentplatform 703 determines that the cell does not contain lossless text, itmay determine that the cell may contain plain text (e.g., if the celldoes not contain lossless text it contains plain text). Afterdetermining whether each cell of the bitmap contains video text, plaintext, and/or scene text, the content concealment platform 703 may tagthe cells accordingly to generate a bitmap such as bitmap 1215, which isshown in FIG. 12C. For example, the black cells of bitmap 1215 maycontain video text, the shaded cells of bitmap 1215 may contain plaintext, and the unshaded cells of bitmap 1215 may contain scene text.

As final steps for building the image layout, the content concealmentplatform 703 may generate shapes (e.g., rectangles) corresponding tosimilarly tagged cells. For example, a rectangle of cells that allcontain plain text may be tagged. In one or more instances, the contentconcealment platform 703 may tag the cells using the following format:Rectangle ID: position parameters {x,y}, width, height, and candidatetag. By tagging the cells, the content concealment platform 103 may beable to group cells into larger shapes that may be analyzed as a wholebased on the type of text that they contain and the content concealmentplatform 103 may be able to locate the rectangles using the identifiercoordinates. In these instances, {x,y} may stand for the coordinates ofa left-top vertex of the rectangle, relative to the display screen. Forexample, Rectangle 1: {(0,0), 32, 32, “plain text”}; Rectangle 2:{(32,0), 64, 16, “scene text”}; Rectangle 5: {(32,16), 64, 48, “videotext”}, and so on. Each rectangle may be a candidate bitmap for textsemantic analysis and concealment of content. In generating theserectangles, the content concealment platform 703 may generate an imagelayout similar to image layout 1305, which is shown in FIG. 13A. Forexample, rectangles 1305A and 1305E may correspond to plain text,rectangles 1305B, 1305C, and 1305F may correspond to scene text, andrectangle 1305D may correspond to video text. It should be understoodthat although the image layout is discussed in terms of rectangles, anyshapes could be used to generate the image layout (e.g., squares,circles, or the like). Once these rectangles are determined, the contentconcealment platform 703 may be complete with construction of the imagelayout, and may send the image layout to the text or image detection andrecognition module 712 b for text or image semantic analysis. Once animage layout for the displayed content is initially constructed, ratherthan performing the image layout each time a surface content update isdetermined, the content concealment platform 703 may skip step 808 andproceed directly from step 807 to step 809.

At step 809, in response to determining a surface content update andonce the image layout has been initially built, the content concealmentplatform 703 may determine whether the image layout should be adjusteddue to the surface content update. In some instances, the contentconcealment platform 703 may determine that a surface content updateoccurred, but might not modify the image layout. In some instances,however, the content concealment platform 703 may determine that theimage layout should be adjusted in response to the surface contentupdate. For example, after a surface content update, the first two cellsin rectangle 1305A may still correspond to plain text, but the other twocells adjacent to rectangle 1305B may correspond to scene text.Accordingly, the content concealment platform 703 may modify the imagelayout to resemble image layout 1310, as shown in FIG. 13B. For example,rectangles 1310A and 1310E may contain plain text, rectangles 1310B,1310C, and 1310F may correspond to scene text, and rectangle 1310D maycorrespond to video text.

In some instances, the content concealment platform 703 may determinethat the image layout should be adjusted in response to a new usergroup. For example, each time an indication of a new user group isreceived, the content concealment platform 703 may recalculate the imagelayout. If the content concealment platform 703 determines that thereare differences between the recalculated image layout and the previouslydetermined image layout, the content concealment platform 703 may sendall rectangles in the bitmap for processing using text semanticanalysis. If the content concealment platform 703 determines that thereare no differences between the recalculated image layout and thepreviously determined image layout, then the content concealmentplatform 703 may send only the rectangles corresponding to changes fromthe content surface update (e.g., new content, layout changes, or thelike from the surface content update) for text semantic analysis. Forexample, if image layout 1305 was modified to resemble image layout1310, the content concealment platform 703 may determine that onlyrectangles 1310A and 1310B should be resent for text semantic analysis.

At step 810, after building and/or updating the image layout at steps808/809, the content concealment platform 703 may perform text detectionand recognition using the detection and recognition module 712 b. Inperforming the text detection and recognition, the content concealmentplatform 703 may use different method of text detection and recognitionfor different rectangles in the image layout based on the text typecontained in each rectangle. For example, in instances where a rectangleof the image layout contains plain text, the content concealmentplatform 703 may perform traditional OCR techniques to determine thetext in that particular rectangle. In instances where a rectangle of theimage layout contains scene text and/or video text, the contentconcealment platform 703 may use R-CNN object detection andbi-directional long short-term memory (BLSTM) for text sequencedetection. These techniques may be part of a deep learning network forscene and video text constructed by the detection and recognition module712 b. In performing these various techniques on the image layout, thecontent concealment platform 703 may return all detected text containedin the displayed content.

At step 811, the content concealment platform 703 may use the detectionand recognition module 712 b to generate proposed text areascorresponding to position parameters of the text determined at step 810.For example, in generating the proposed text areas, the contentconcealment platform 703 may mark, for example, top left coordinates,width, and height of the text in terms of pixels. These proposed textareas may be associated with the text determined at step 810, and may besent to the sensitive content checking module 712 c for furtherprocessing.

At step 812, the content concealment platform 703 may use the sensitivecontent checking module 712 c to determine whether any of the textdetermined at step 810 should be concealed. In some instances, thecontent concealment platform 703 may determine whether the text shouldbe concealed based on the active group list. For example, each group mayhave a dictionary of words to be concealed, word patterns that should beconcealed, specific concealment policies, or the like. The contentconcealment platform 703 may apply these group specific rules to thedetermined text for each group included in the active group list. In oneor more instances, text may be an exact match with a word in thedictionary of words to be concealed. Additionally or alternatively, thetext may be a fuzzy or flexible match to a word pattern that should beconcealed (e.g., a regular expression (a sequence of characters thatcomprise a search pattern)). Additional or alternatively, the text maybe a semantic match with a word that should be concealed based onapplication of deep learning algorithms In each of these instances, thecontent concealment platform 703 may determine that the text should beconcealed from display. It should be understood that in determiningwhether any of the text should be concealed, the content concealmentplatform 703 may determine lines of text in addition to individualwords. In one or more instances, in addition to or as an alternative todetermining whether any of the text determined at step 810 should beconcealed, the content concealment platform 703 may determine whetherany previously concealed text should be exposed (e.g., because a finaluser in a particular group has left the camera view).

Referring to FIG. 8B, at step 813, the content concealment platform 703may calculate a position for the words to be concealed. In one or moreinstances, the content concealment platform 703 may calculate theposition for the words to be concealed by determining the proposed textareas (determined at step 811) for the words identified for concealmentat step 812.

At step 814, after determining the positions of the words to beconcealed at step 813, the content concealment platform 703 may use theimage analysis and protection module 712 a to conceal or expose text orother content for display accordingly. In concealing the text, thecontent concealment platform 703 may use the image analysis andprotection module 712 a to capture a full-screen bitmap from a videobuffer and may cache the bitmap as a base frame. In caching the bitmapas a base frame, the content concealment platform 703 may store thebitmap as a point of reference that may be used to return concealedcontent to its original state. In one or more instances, the base framemay also update along with an ICA graphics surface update.

The image analysis and protection module 712 a may receive an indicationfrom the sensitive content checking module 712 c indicating whichportions of the content should be concealed and a solid color bitmap maybe assembled (e.g., black, or the like) with a size equal to a targetrectangle corresponding to the portion of content to be concealed. Theimage analysis and protection module 712 a may then update the blackbitmap to the corresponding position of a screen of the client device702 via an ICA stack.

In instances where the black bitmap should be removed in order to revealtext or other content in accordance with a particular individuals exit,the image analysis and protection operation may obtain the originalbitmap from the base frame, and may update the original bitmap to thecorresponding position of the screen of the client device 702 via an ICAstack.

In one or more instances, the content concealment platform 703 maygenerate and send one or more commands to the client device 702directing the client device 702 to display the content with portions ofthe content concealed. In these instances, the content concealmentplatform 703 may send the one or more commands via the communicationinterface 713 and while the wireless data connection is established.

At step 815, the client device 702 may display the content withparticular portions concealed. In one or more instances, in displayingthe content at step 815, the client device 702 may display a graphicaluser interface similar to graphical user interface 1110, which is shownin FIG. 11B. For example, the confidential information, sensitive words,and/or digital content that were previously displayed may now beconcealed. In one or more instances, the client device 702 may receivethe one or more commands directing the client device 702 to display thecontent with portions concealed, and the client device 702 may displaythe content in response to the one or more commands.

Although steps 801-815 are primarily described with regard to concealingtext, it should be understood that these steps may similarly be used toconceal other non-textual portions of displayed content (e.g., images,video, or the like). Similarly, these steps are not limited toconcealing a single word, but rather also apply to lines of text thatmay be concealed based on a deep learning text semantic analysis thatindicates that the lines of text should be concealed

Subsequently, the event sequence may end, and the content concealmentplatform 703 may continue to conceal text based on user groups asdescribed above. Accordingly, a method for real time text concealment ispresented. Additionally, rather than merely determining that particulartext should be concealed from certain individuals and thus consistentlyconcealing the text from everyone, the content concealment platform 703may provide a method for concealing text based on policies correspondingto various user groups. Accordingly, the quality of content concealment(and similarly the security and secrecy of the concealed content) may beimproved.

FIG. 9 depicts an illustrative method for performing real time textconcealment based on changes in user groups in accordance with one ormore example embodiments. Referring to FIG. 9, at step 905, a firstcomputing device having at least one processor, a communicationinterface, and memory may perform facial detection and recognition.Actions performed at step 905 may be similar to those described abovewith regard to step 802. At step 910, the first computing device mayaggregate the recognized users by group. Actions performed at step 910may be similar to those described above with regard to step 803. At step915, the first computing device may determine whether a user from a newgroup has arrived. If a new user has arrived, the first computing devicemay send an indication of the group change to a second computing device,and may proceed to step 930. If a new user has not arrived, the firstcomputing device may proceed to step 920. Actions performed at step 915may be similar to those described above with regard to steps 804-806.

At step 920, the first computing device may determine whether all usersfrom a previously represented group have left the view of the camera ofthe client device. If all users from a previously represented group havenot left, the method may end. If all users from a previously representedgroup have left, the first computing device may send an indication ofthe group change to the second computing device and may proceed to step925. Actions performed at step 920 may be similar to those describedabove with regard to steps 804-806.

At step 925, the second computing device may cause previously concealedtext areas associated with the previously represented group to beexposed. Actions performed at step 925 are described further above withregard to steps 807-814. At step 930, the second computing device maycalculate an active image layout. Actions performed at step 930 may besimilar to those described above with regard to steps 808 and 809. Atstep 935, the second computing device may determine whether textdetection and recognition has been performed on all rectangles includedin the active image layout. If text detection and recognition has beenperformed on all rectangles in the active image layout, the secondcomputing device may proceed to step 955. If text detection andrecognition has not been performed on all rectangles in the active imagelayout, the second computing device may proceed to step 940.

At step 940, the second computing device may perform text detection andrecognition on a rectangle of the active image layout. Actions performedat step 940 may be similar to those described above with regard to steps810. At step 945, the second computing device may determine, based onthe text detection and recognition, whether the rectangle contains text.If the rectangle does not contain text, the second computing device mayreturn to step 935. If the rectangle does contain text, the secondcomputing device may proceed to step 950.

At step 950, the second computing device may save the text and aposition for a proposed text area corresponding to the text. Actionsperformed at step 950 may be similar to those described above withregard to steps 811. At step 955, once all rectangles of the activeimage layout have been analyzed, the second computing device mayidentify words that should be concealed, and may conceal themaccordingly. Actions performed at step 955 may be similar to thosedescribed above with regard to steps 812-814. Subsequently, the methodmay end.

FIG. 10 depicts an illustrative method for performing real time textconcealment based on surface content updates in accordance with one ormore example embodiments. Referring to FIG. 10, at step 1005, acomputing device having at least one processor, a communicationinterface, and memory may calculate an active image layout in responseto an update to content currently being displayed (referred to assurface content). Actions performed at step 1005 may be similar to thosedescribed above with regard to step 808. At step 1010, the computingdevice may determine whether all rectangles included in the active imagelayout have been analyzed. If all rectangles have been analyzed, thecomputing device may proceed to step 1045. If all rectangles have notbeen analyzed, the computing device may proceed to step 1015.

At step 1015, the computing device may determine whether any rectangleschange shape based on the surface content update. If rectangles havechanged shape, the computing device may proceed to step 1025. Ifrectangles have not changed shape, the computing device may proceed tostep 1020. Actions performed at step 1015 may be similar to thosedescribed above with regard to step 809.

At step 1020, the computing device may determine whether the surfacecontent update caused content changes on the display. If there were nocontent changes, the computing device may proceed to step 1030. If therewere content changes, the computing device may proceed to step 1025.Actions performed at step 1020 may be similar to those described abovewith regard to step 810.

At step 1025, the computing device may perform text detection andrecognition. Actions described at step 1025 may be similar to thosedescribed above with regard to step 810. At step 1030, the computingdevice may determine whether the rectangle has text. If the rectangledoes not have text, the computing device may proceed to step 1040. Ifthe rectangle does have text, the computing device may proceed to step1035. Actions performed at step 1025 may be similar to those describedabove with regard to step 810.

At step 1035, the computing device may save the text and a position ofthe text as a proposed text area. Actions performed at step 1035 may besimilar to those described above with regard to step 811. At step 1040,the computing device may proceed to another rectangle in the activeimage layout.

At step 1045, the computing device may identify words in the saved textsthat should be concealed, and may conceal the words accordingly. Actionsperformed at step 1045 may be similar to those described above withregard to step 812-814. Subsequently, the method may end.

Although the subject matter has been described in language specific tostructural features and/or methodological acts, it is to be understoodthat the subject matter defined in the appended claims is notnecessarily limited to the specific features or acts described above.

Rather, the specific features and acts described above are described asexample implementations of the following claims.

What is claimed is:
 1. A system comprising: at least one processor; anda memory storing computer readable instructions that, when executed bythe at least one processor, cause the system to: in response todetecting a user within view of an image capture device of a clientdevice, perform a first type of text recognition on a first region ofdigital content displayed by the client device and a second type of textrecognition on a second region of the digital content displayed by theclient device, wherein the first type of text recognition is determinedbased on a first type of content items contained in the first region andthe second type of text recognition is determined based on a second typeof content items contained in the second region; determine, based atleast in part on rules corresponding to the user, content items withinthe digital content to be concealed; modify the digital content so as toconceal the content items from view of the user while the client devicedisplays the digital content; and display, via the client device, themodified digital content to the user, wherein the modified digitalcontent does not contain the determined content items.
 2. The system ofclaim 1, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least oneprocessor, further cause the system to: establish a wireless dataconnection with the client device; and receive, while the wireless dataconnection is established, an indication of a first change in groups towhich present users belong, wherein the first type of text recognitionand the second type of text recognition are performed in response toreceiving the indication of the first change in the groups to whichpresent users belong.
 3. The system of claim 2, wherein theinstructions, when executed by the at least one processor, further causethe system to identify, based on the groups to which present usersbelong, the one or more content items within the digital content to beconcealed.
 4. The system of claim 3, wherein identifying, based on thegroups to which present users belong, the one or more content items tobe concealed comprises determining that text recognized in the digitalcontent corresponds to words identified by policies corresponding toeach group to which present users belong.
 5. The system of claim 2,wherein the groups to which present users belong are defined based onuser age or employment status of the present users.
 6. The system ofclaim 1, wherein the first region contains plain text, the second regioncontains text in an image, and a third region contains text in video. 7.The system of claim 2, wherein the instructions, when executed by the atleast one processor, further cause the system to monitor, at apredefined interval, the groups to which present users belong and thedigital content to determine the change.
 8. The system of claim 2,wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor,further cause the system to: determine, in response to a second changein groups to which present users belong, that the modified digitalcontent should be modified to allow display of the determined contentitems; and modify the modified digital content to allow display of thedetermined content items by returning the modified digital content to apre-modification state.
 9. The system of claim 2, wherein theinstructions, when executed by the at least one processor, further causethe system to: determine, in response to a second change in the content,that the modified digital content contains one or more additionalcontent items to be concealed; and modify the modified digital contentto cause positions of the one or more additional content items to beconcealed to correspond to a uniform color.
 10. The system of claim 1,wherein the change in groups to which present users belong is detectedby: performing facial recognition to determine an identifiercorresponding to each user in view of the image capture device of theclient device; and determining at least one identifier corresponding toa new group to which present users belong by comparison of thedetermined identifiers to a stored database of correlations between alist of identifiers and a list of groups to which present users belong.11. A method comprising: in response to detecting a user within view ofan image capture device of a client device, performing a first type oftext recognition on a first region of digital content displayed by theclient device and a second type of text recognition on a second regionof the digital content displayed by the client device, wherein the firsttype of text recognition is determined based on a first type of contentitems contained in the first region and the second type of textrecognition is determined based on a second type of content itemscontained in the second region; determining, based at least in part onrules corresponding to the user, content items within the digitalcontent to be concealed; modifying the digital content so as to concealthe content items from view of the user while the client device displaysthe digital content; and display, via the client device, the modifieddigital content to the user, wherein the modified digital content doesnot contain the determined content items.
 12. The method of claim 11,further comprising: establishing a wireless data connection with theclient device; and receiving, while the wireless data connection isestablished, an indication of a first change in groups to which presentusers belong, wherein the first type of text recognition and the secondtype of text recognition are performed in response to receiving theindication of the first change in the groups to which present usersbelong.
 13. The method of claim 12, further comprising identifying,based on the groups to which present users belong, the one or morecontent items to be concealed, wherein identifying, based on the groupsto which present users belong, the one or more content items to beconcealed comprises determining that text recognized in the digitalcontent corresponds to: words identified by policies corresponding toeach group to which present users belong.
 14. The method of claim 12,wherein the groups to which present users belong are defined based onuser age or employment status of present users.
 15. The method of claim11, wherein the first region contains plain text, the second regioncontains text in an image, and a third region contains text in video.16. The method of claim 12, further comprising monitoring, at apredefined interval, the groups to which present users belong and thedigital content to determine the change.
 17. The method of claim 12,further comprising: determining, in response to a second change ingroups to which present users belong, that the modified digital contentshould be modified to allow display of the content items; and modifyingthe modified digital content to allow display of the determined contentitems by returning the modified digital content to a pre-modificationstate.
 18. The method of claim 12, further comprising: determining, inresponse to a second change in the modified digital content, that themodified digital content contains one or more additional content itemsto be concealed; and modifying the modified digital content to causepositions of the one or more additional content items to be concealed tocorrespond to a uniform color.
 19. The method of claim 11, wherein thechange in groups to which present users belong is detected by:performing facial recognition to determine an identifier correspondingto each user in view of the image capture device of the client device;and determining at least one identifier corresponding to a new group towhich present users belong by comparison of the determined identifiersto a stored database of correlations between a list of identifiers and alist of groups to which present users belong.
 20. One or morenon-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, whenexecuted by a system comprising at least one processor, a communicationinterface, and memory, cause the system to: in response to detecting auser within view of an image capture device of a client device, performa first type of text recognition on a first region of digital contentdisplayed by the client device and a second type of text recognition ona second region of the digital content displayed by the client device,wherein the first type of text recognition is determined based on afirst type of content items contained in the first region and the secondtype of text recognition is determined based on a second type of contentitems contained in the second region; determine, based at least in parton rules corresponding to the user, content items within the digitalcontent to be concealed; modify the digital content so as to conceal thecontent items from view of the user while the client device displays thedigital content; and display, via the client device, the modifieddigital content to the user, wherein the modified digital content doesnot contain the determined content items.